July 2011 Roundup

31st July 2011

The summer months tend to be quiet when it comes to new releases,
but we saw a varied bunch of devices being announced this month
to ship later in the year.

Motorola

The Motorola
DROID 3 was no secret at all, and while this latest top-of-the
range Android device is heading exclusively to Verizon Wireless
in the US, we can expect to see an announcement of the GSM version
very soon indeed. At the opposite end of the Android market, the
Motorola
FIRE (or SPICE Key, or XT316) is a low cost Android messaging
device that looks very much like a BlackBerry.

LG

A pair of cheap-ish Android phonees, the LG
Optimus Net is a fairly basic but still very usable device that
sits near the bottom of LG's smartphone range, alongside the LG
Optimus Pro which is yet another BlackBerry-style Android messaging
device.

Other Manufacturers

An exquisitely designed, exclusive and very expensive Android
smartphone, the TAG
Heuer LINK is certainly impressive, but is it worth it? And
what is probably the world's first Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango"
device, the Fujitsu
Toshiba IS12T is heading exclusively to KDDI in Japan.